A collection of recent excellent books and articles on nationalism, immigration, and open borders according to experts, professionals, and academics from multiple different fields.
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BOOKS -
1 . Wretched Refuse? by Alex Nowrasteh and Benjamin Powell (2020) - https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/wretched-refuse/47A037EB552CDB16DC77906072A590AB
Review
'This book tackles the most important academic question confronting recommendations for 'free labor' - whether too much of a good thing at the margin becomes a bad thing. The book consolidates all of the existing research - and then adds more, and then adds more, and then adds even more. It will be a standard work on this question for some time.' Lant Pritchett, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
'Read this penetrating analysis of immigration and see why there is still a case for the wealth creating powers of the free movement of people as well as goods in international trade. If people don't cross borders, we will be less prosperous.' Vernon Smith, Chapman University and 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics
'Many thinkers fear the effect of immigration on our policies, our democracy, and our liberty, but barely anyone tries to actually measure these effects. Wretched Refuse? does just this with skill, care, and calm - and ends up being the best book ever written on this subject. Combining a thorough review of past research with much original social science, Nowrasteh and Powell conclude that the immigration pessimists are paranoid. The political effects of immigration have been benign for centuries, and remain so today.' Bryan Caplan, George Mason University and co-author of the New York Times best-selling Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration
'In Wretched Refuse?, Alex Nowrasteh and Ben Powell consider - and ultimately reject - the claim that immigrants import ill-suited institutions from their home countries, thereby undermining economic growth. In this clear-eyed treatment, the authors bring a wealth of evidence to bear, both modern and historical, that, if anything, immigrants are transformed by their adoptive societies and support rising productivity. This lucid volume should be of interest to economists and policy makers interesting in designing smart immigration policy.' Leah Boustan, Princeton University
'Wretched Refuse? takes head-on the claim that the direct economic benefits of immigration are offset by indirect costs such as corruption, terrorism or the erosion of cultural norms. With careful empirical analysis, looking both across countries and at case studies, Nowrasteh and Powell show convincingly that there is little or no evidence to substantiate such fears. This is a timely and important contribution to the broader economic case for liberalising immigration policy.' Jonathan Portes, King's College London
'… highly original, and takes a chainsaw to the most intellectually respectable case against immigration … they demolish a big argument against existing levels of immigration, and suggest that most rich countries would benefit from being more open. Mr Biden and his advisers should devour their book.' The Economist --This text refers to the hardcover edition.
Free to Move by Ilya Somin (2022 - 2nd edition) - https://academic.oup.com/book/36806?login=false
Review
Free to Move shows that foot voting works better than we think, is more common than we think, and that there are many opportunities to improve political freedom by encouraging foot voting.... Chapter 5.... convincingly rejects both individualistic and communitarian arguments that self-determination can justify the exclusion of people. It offers as clear and convincing a rejection of discrimination based on parentage and place of birth as this author has ever seen... One of the outstanding features of the book is that it is robust to criticism. The reason is that Somin deals with potential critiques in a fair way. There are no straw person arguments. ― Ilia Murtazashvili, Public Choice
A powerful book. ― Richard A. Epstein, New York University School of Law, author of The Classical Liberal Constitution.
If Jason Brennan's Against Democracy met Bryan Caplan's Open Borders, the result would be Ilya Somin's great book from last year[2020]: Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom. In a dense 186-page book Somin does what these two great scholars did separately over hundreds of pages: undermining voting as the most effectful participation in civic life and showing that arguments against foreigners coming to our shores don't hold water. ― Joakim Book, Writer, researcher and editor on all things money, finance and financial history., American Institute for Economic Research
Ilya Somin's book is terrific. ― Guy-Uriel Charles, Law professor at Duke Law School and the co-director of the Center on Law, Race, and Politics, Twitter
Ilya Somin gives the reader a theory of Federalism writ (internationally) large: A great book. ― Professor Roderick Hills, NYU School of Law, Twitter
Immigration policy is the most debated and controversial issue of our time....Related to these political and policy developments is the perceived partisan sorting of voters into different geographic regions, the rise of.... identity politics, and a general sense of deepening political polarization.... Ilya Somin deftly combines these issues into one forceful thesis in his new book, Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom. There are many new books about immigration, but Somin's is the only one that argues that the ability to exit a political jurisdiction and enter another... is the cheapest and best way to improve individual political freedom.... I've read many of Somin's other books and I recommend them all, but if you only have time to read one work by this prolific scholar to understand much of his thinking on current policy issues, Free to Move is the book for you. ― Alex Nowrasteh, Cato Institute
[I] don't agree with some points, but a lot of really smart and clear arguments here, and some particularly great ripostes to common anti-migration positions. ― John Washington, author of The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum and the US-Mexican Border and Beyond
Somin offers a compelling and ingenious justification for free global movement ... The book's combination of rigorous thought and engaging argument makes "Free to Move" a must-read for those interested in the future of immigration law and policy. ― Peter Margulies, Lawfare
It is the best book on geographic mobility and exit that has been written to date, and... I am happy to recommend it heartily. ― Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution
In this excellent book, Somin makes a compelling case that migration ― or foot voting ― provides far more political power than voting. Any one voter has a trivially small chance of altering an election, but any household can choose a new state and local government by simply moving. This insight implies that devolving power to local governments will generate far more political voice than any conceivable reform to national elections. Freer international migration would empower even more people to choose their own government. Somin's case is strong, his thinking is clear, and his writing is eloquent. ― Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, Harvard University and author of The Triumph of the City
Ilya Somin shows that mobility-the freedom to move from here to there-might be the most underrated underpinning of a free society. It is especially important in America, where states can compete with one another to have social policies welcoming to enterprise and liberty. Voting is important; so is what Somin calls 'foot voting.' ― George F. Will, columnist, Washington Post, and author of The Conservative Sensibility
This eminently readable, tightly-argued, and compelling book is a model for how empirically-informed democratic theory ought to proceed. Somin shows us that in modern democracies, even when everyone has equal voice, that voice is usually close to worthless. Taking political freedom seriously requires a serious solution: foot voting. We need to ensure everyone has the right and power to move and work where they please. Exit beats voice almost every time, and the competition isn't even close. Somin deftly considers and rebuts every major objection to his view. In the end, the conclusion is inescapable: the arguments for democracy don't so much justify participatory democracy; they instead justify real freedom of movement. ― Jason Brennan, Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Term Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University; author of The Ethics of Voting
Many find majority voting with ballots to be the highest guarantor of liberty. They may never have found themselves in the minority on a question vital to their well-being. Ilya Somin brilliantly and accessibly points to the central, additional role of voting with your feet - moving to a place with better policy - in protecting liberty. His book mines a deep vein of law and philosophy, but you'll find mercifully little jargon here. What you will find is a book that gives to common assumptions a taut and compelling challenge, and might leave you transformed. It offers a new way to think about international migration, but not just that. It is nothing less than a proposal for a higher form of democracy, built on the critical roles of both ballot-voting and foot-voting as guardians of freedom. ― Michael Clemens, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development and author of The Walls of Nations
Ilya Somin has done it again, producing a compelling new book, rich with insights about democratic theory, law, and economics. Free to Move takes a familiar idea-that people should be allowed and encouraged to choose the entities that govern them by moving between jurisdictions-and shows why it is valuable and how taking it seriously as form of political choice provides a clear set of answers to some of our most pressing social problems. Those who share Somin's belief in the value of 'voting with your feet,' will see the scope of their commitment pushed by his consistency and range, and those who do not will find themselves challenged and perhaps even convinced. ― David Schleicher, Professor, Yale Law School --This text refers to the hardcover edition.
Open Borders by Bryan Caplan (2019) - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250316967/openborders
Review
"Highly recommended―the most powerful an economic and moral argument on a fundamental issue I have ever read in graphic novel format and up there in any format."―Jason Furman
"A delightful tour of the arguments and evidence behind the debate [around open borders]... What’s refreshing about the way that Caplan responds to the likely criticisms of his thesis is that he’s thoughtful and generous. Nobody is accused or racism or some other less-than-pure motivation." ―Bloomberg Opinion
"[Caplan's] numbers-don’t-lie arguments are supported by comprehensive research...makes easy dismissal impossible. His partner-in-insight Weinersmith provides crisp, easy-to-grasp artistic support, with his own occasional insertions of humor." ―Booklist, starred review
"A highly effective way to talk about an issue that remains a nonstarter for so many nationwide." ―Kirkus
"Highly recommended for all libraries’ graphic novel collections and for teachers seeking alternatives to more didactic texts on immigration." ―School Library Journal
“A phenomenal achievement. [Open Borders] is a landmark in economic education, how to present economic ideas, and the integration of economic analysis and graphic visuals. I picked it up not knowing what to expect, and was blown away by the execution . . . This book is one of the very best explainers of the gains from trade idea ever produced, and it will teach virtually anyone a truly significant amount about the immigration issue, as well as economic analytics more generally.” ―Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution
“An easy-to-read contrarian take from an economist who is right about most everything.” ―John Stossel
“A welcome counterpoint to the rampant fear-mongering that all too often dominates airwaves and political campaigns.” ―Paste Magazine
“A compelling contribution to the debate over one of the most significant issues of our time.” ―Reason
“Just like John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women 150 years ago, this book advances a sustained argument so compelling that it just might shift the moral foundations of the world.” ―Scott Aaronson, University of Texas at Austin
“A tour de force graphic novel illustrating one fundamental truth: there’s nothing more American than being an immigrant.” ―Jeff Atwood, cofounder of Stack Overflow and Discourse.org
“Caplan and Weinersmith have pioneered a new format: a comic book that's quantitative and informative while remaining thoroughly entertaining. Whether you support more migration or not, Open Borders will quickly give you a balanced understanding of what serious research has to say about how open borders would affect America.” ―Robert Wiblin, director of research, 80,000 Hours
“A clear and inescapable economic, moral, and political case for reopening the borders that artfully counters the common objections.” ―John H. Cochrane, Hoover Institution at Stanford University
Against Borders by Alex Sager (2020) - https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786606297/Against-Borders-Why-the-World-Needs-Free-Movement-of-People
Review
[Sager's] depiction of the global immigration structure as based on racism, perpetuating and creating inequalities along racial lines, forms a powerful and urgent element of the anti-racism movement that is taking place at this time.-- "Network for Migration Matters"
A timely and important contribution to discussions about how to handle the most pressing issues currently facing the world. Sager draws on the concepts of freedom, equality, and distributive justice to push back against common arguments around restricting borders that center on self-determination, security, and cultural values. He not only makes a compelling case for more open borders but also emphasizes the moral responsibility to fight for the rights of migrants. Essential.-- "Choice"
Sager's clear stance, his persuasiveness and holistic view make this book definitely worth reading. It can be recommended to scholars and students looking for an extensive collection of arguments in favour of unrestricted movement--but also to all those who have long been sceptical of borders and their supposed indispensability.-- "LSE Review of Books"
Alex Sager brings the open-borders debate right down to Earth. He connects it to the ongoing effects of racism, colonialism, and so on. And he makes a strong case that opening borders can be not just a philosopher's ideal but a genuine policy option. It's a very important project and he carries it through with his characteristic clarity of thought and extremely impressive breadth of knowledge across both normative and empirical disciplines.--Adam Omar Hosein, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Northeastern University, USA
Against Borders is a courageous, deeply knowledgeable and carefully-argued book. In a field saturated with very familiar arguments for even more well-rehearsed positions on free movement, Alex Sager has broken with the crowd, advancing a multipronged and persuasive case that borders are useless, dangerous, and unjustifiable. This book contains readable theory backed up with a rich array of data. Scholars and non-experts alike will benefit from its content.--Elizabeth F. Cohen, Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, USA
Alex Sager's powerfully argued book combines the commitments of an activist with the analytical skills of a political theorist. Drawing on an impressive range of philosophical, historical and social scientific sources, Sager mounts a sustained critique of arguments for border restrictions. Open borders as a feasible political goal has found an eloquent and sophisticated advocate.--David Owen, Professor of Social and Political Philosophy, University of Southampton, UK
In this timely, insightful, and engaging book, Alex Sager argues that there are compelling considerations in favor of open borders, such as the demands of distributive justice and a careful assessment of immigration enforcement policies. He addresses questions concerning political action in the face of border controls, persuasively enjoining readers to do their part in working towards open borders.--Gillian Brock, Professor of Philosophy, University of Auckland, New Zealand --This text refers to the hardcover edition.
Streets of Gold by Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan (2022) [note that this book does not explicitly support open borders but their research pretty much supports open borders] - https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ran-abramitzky/streets-of-gold/9781541797826/?lens=publicaffairs
“The book reflects an ongoing renaissance in the field of economic history fueled by technological advances — an increase in digitized records, new techniques to analyze them and the launch of platforms such as Ancestry — that are breathing new life into a range of long-standing questions about immigration. Abramitzky and Boustan are masters of this craft, and they creatively leverage the evolving data landscape to deepen our understanding of the past and present.” -
Washington Post
“Abramitzky and Boustan have made an immense contribution to our understanding the economic history of immigration and what it can teach us about upward mobility in the United States.” -
Foreign Policy
“This wonderful and highly readablebook provides the facts and sets the record straight about the hot-button issue of immigration and is a must-read for anyone who cares about this important issue. Immigrants benefit from coming to the US, but so does the country from the diversity, skills, and energy that they bring. Remarkably, most existing evidence suggests that native workers are not harmed by immigrants.” -
Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor of Economics, MIT, and coauthor of Why Nations Fail and The Narrow Corridor
“In this fascinating book, Abramitzky and Boustan ingeniously employ the tools of data science to construct the first ‘big data’ account of immigration in America. Combining rigorous statistical analysis with thoughtful narratives, they weave a compelling story about how millions of immigrant families achieved the American Dream over the last century and a half. The result is a set of timely and concrete insights that will help reshape the narrative about immigration and opportunity in the United States.” -
Raj Chetty, William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics, Harvard University
“While Americans are intensely polarized about immigration, facts and history can help change minds. And Streets of Gold has the facts, millions and millions of them, about the amazing and often-surprising history of American immigration. It is a splendid testament to the power of big data to illuminate our past and what it means for the future.” -
Angus Deaton, Nobel laureate, economics, and coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
“Complex in its coverage, uplifting in its message, engaging in its composition, and powerful in its significance, Streets of Gold is a ‘New World Symphony’ in words and numbers. Immigrants today, as in the past, make a better life for themselves. But upward mobility comes through generations, and the success of the immigrant child does not come at the expense of the one with US-born parents. There is greater continuity and harmony in this version of the American Dream than discontinuity and dissonance.” -
Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Harvard University, and author of Career & Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity
“With Streets of Gold, Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan have written a highly engaging book on the enduring but underappreciated success story of American immigration. Interweaving anecdotes drawn from many sources, including their own personal stories, with conclusions drawn from systematic big data analyses using tools from modern economic research, they paint a vivid and wide-ranging picture of the changes in immigration over time and the effects on American society. They take us to meet not only spectacular success stories like Tino Cuellar, who quickly moved from being born in Mexico to graduating from Harvard and becoming a justice on the California supreme court, but also the more common story of Louis Bilchick, whose family moved slowly but steadily up the economic ladder. Along the way, they separate fact and fiction and bust many of the myths that pervade and confuse the current discussion on immigration policy. As an immigrant and American citizen, I highly recommend this inspiring book for anyone interested in the debates on immigration.”
Guido Imbens, The Applied Econometrics Professor, Stanford University, and Nobel laureate, economics
“Unprecedented data, empathetic personal histories, joyous writing, practical solutions, and a compelling counter-zeitgeist narrative make Streets of Gold an essential read for all Americans confused by the partisan rancor surrounding immigration. Abramitzky and Boustan demonstrate the travails of first-generation immigrants, the startling economic success of the second generation, the rapid pace of cultural ‘Americanization,’ the lack of wage threat to American-born workers, and the similarity of these patterns for the two waves of immigration bringing Europeans (in the late nineteeth century) and Latin Americans (in the late twentieth century) into our country. Despite all the rancor, we who are of immigrant heritage are reminded how remarkable a country is America.”
David Laitin, Watkins Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
“The optimism that runs through Streets of Gold—immigrants are and have always been a ‘grand bargain’ for America—is based on the rock-solid evidence of Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan’s rigorous deep dive into millions of census records and Ancestry.com filings. The stories they tell then become a powerful means of communicating the truth about the unique phenomenon of the American immigrant experience.”
Doug Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
“A book as timely as it is magisterial. Two of the most respected and accomplished scholars of economic history demonstrate that much of what you thought you knew about the historical experience of immigrants coming to the United States in the past turns out to be wrong. Armed with reams of new data, elegantly written, and meticulously researched, Streets of Gold revisits many of the most pertinent and perplexing social and economic issues in the history of immigration with often-surprising results.”
Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University
“Streets of Gold is the conversation you always wanted to have about where Americans come from. Abramitzky and Boustan have discovered new ways of answering that question in this fascinating and hard to put down history of American immigration, based on new sources of data, and conveyed by powerful storytelling.”
Alvin E. Roth, Nobel laureate, economics, and author of Who Gets What and Why
“Streets of Gold is a pathbreaking book. Mining a treasure trove of big data over more than a century, Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan manage to show the surprising continuity between past and present patterns of immigrant integration in the United States. Their data show that most immigrants, even across widely different backgrounds, achieve success over two to three generations, much as in the past. This book is a must-read for those interested in the role of immigration in American society.”
Andrew Selee, president, Migration Policy Institute
“An absolute treasure, the perfect book on immigration—substantive and data-driven, but leaving room for the stories of immigrants, good and bad. This is a timely book, but it will be read for many years.”
Zack Weinersmith, New York Times–bestselling author of Soonish
“Economists Abramitzky and Boustan mount a compelling argument for the success of immigrants in the U.S. for more than 100 years. Drawing on data documenting millions of immigrants from many countries, arriving with varying levels of education and resources, they find strong evidence of immigrants’ upward mobility, assimilation, and contributions to the economy and culture…A well-researched, informative contribution to a contentious—and often misinformed—debate.”
Kirkus
“[A] data-driven analysis of not just immigrants but also their legacies.”
Harvard Business Review
“[A] n important new analysis of the economic impact of immigration to the United States over the last century or more.”
Reason
“Migration myths are contributing to tearing our nation apart. This book, grounded on deep original research and made lively by moving personal accounts, is an essential read. It shows that little has changed in this salad bowl that is our country, neither the migrants’ travails nor their successes nor, sadly, the prejudices they encounter.”
Esther Duflo, McKinsey Summer Reading list
“The book brings reams and reams of data to tell the story of immigration to the US over the late 19th and 20th centuries and how it remade both the lives of migrants and the country itself.”
Vox
Immigration and Freedom by Chandran Kukathas (2021) -https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691189680/immigration-and-freedom
"Chandran Kukathas turns current public and academic debates over immigration on their head in this careful, original, and compelling account of how border controls infringe the liberties of the very citizens they aim to protect. Immigration and Freedom is little short of a revelation."—Matthew J. Gibney, University of Oxford
"Political philosophy at its best makes us rethink our collective life by offering a fresh and enlightened, possibly surprising perspective. Immigration and Freedom masterfully achieves that, as it redirects our attention from what happens at our borders, important as it is, to the society of surveillance that arises with the control of migrants. Chandran Kukathas's treatise is an exemplary work of 'grounded' political theory uncompromising in its quest for individual freedom pitched against the power of the nation-state."—Rainer Forst, Goethe University Frankfurt
"Sober and balanced, Immigration and Freedom explores the threat that the prevalent state focus on immigration control poses to the ideal of an open society. Kukathas draws out the ways—both blatant and subtle—in which immigration control limits the freedom of outsiders and insiders alike. This impressive and original book is quite unlike anything else published in this field."—David Owen, author of What Do We Owe to Refugees?
"This important book looks at immigration through the lens of freedom, which no theorists working on immigration have done previously. Its entire argument is well-crafted and the work makes an important contribution to the political theory literature on immigration."—Jeff Spinner-Halev, author of Enduring Injustice
"A revelatory rethinking of immigration controls from one of today's most original and incisive political philosophers."—Leif Wenar, Stanford University
The above books are mostly bipartisan (there is a lot in those books that you can agree with or at least sympathize with). But if you are socialist leaning or generally left leaning (I am not a leftist and I don’t lean left), then I recommend -
The case for open borders by John Washington (2024) - https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2199-the-case-for-open-borders
Note that the above book also does offer some bipartisan arguments for supporting open borders even though there are some arguments that are obviously plausible to only left wing perspective.
Review
“A powerful and convincing case for human solidarity and cooperation for which Washington provides a roadmap. Unlike many commentaries and books about the fraught border, he does not leave out the Indigenous communities whose homelands have existed in the area for centuries before the border was violently imposed by the United States in 1848.” —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Not “A Nation of Immigrants:” Settler-Colonialism , White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
"John Washington makes a strong, eloquent and even inspiring case for the relaxation and ultimately the abolition of border controls." —JM Coetzee"The Case for Open Borders offers an accessible and passionate case against border controls. Highlighting the complex stories and lived experiences of displaced and immobilized migrants in the crosshairs of violent bordering regimes, Washington shows how borders structure global difference across economies and ecosystems and ends with a multi-faceted and air-tight 21 arguments for open borders for people across the political spectrum." —Harsha Walia
"John Washington’s The Case for Open Borders is a compelling, empathetic argument, a far-reaching look into the origins of borders. Washington is one of our most thoughtful, creative, and humane journalists, and this new work will make people think differently about what they think they already know, about what divides and unites the world in new, surprising ways. Highly recommended." —Greg Grandin
“John Washington provides us with an essential evidence based, politically sophisticated, and ethically compelling tool to address one of the most important issues of our time.” —Alex Vitale, author of The End of Policing
The Case for Open Borders reveals the extent to which today’s global borders have become, at their very core, irredeemably inhumane. Through riveting reporting and wide-ranging citations and case studies, John Washington deconstructs a host of broken metaphors, facile analogies, and fallacious arguments—deconstructing modern notions of scarcity, enforcement, and “order.” This is essential reading, a powerhouse manual for re-imagining a world without walls." —Francisco Cantú, author of The Line Becomes a River
"The Case for Open Borders is an urgently needed and timely appeal for justice for the expanding flows of migrants and refugees falling victim inside a hardened and darkening complex of enforced border walls, perilous waterways, and spirals of razor wire. A fluid blend of historical analysis, investigative journalism, and illustrative storytelling, this book grabs you immediately and turns your attention to these anti-human regimes jutting the global landscape—and won’t let you look away. Read this book that makes the most complete and comprehensive case for opening the borders—and then take action to make it a reality." —Justin Akers Chacón
“The Case for Open Borders is eloquently written and packed with arguments and examples in the United States and beyond, reframing the issue in a way that undermines the familiar, tedious border bluster. If you hunger for new visions, new ways of doing things, and understand that the current situation is not inevitable, or even desirable, this book is for you.” —Todd Miller, journalist, and author of Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World
"Perhaps the most profound book you’ll read this year. Washington cleaves through all the cruel obfuscations and militaristic cant that derange our border and immigration politics and offers a better human alternative. Borders will not save us, or our rapidly broiling planet, but Washington's reportorial courage and ethical clarity just might." —Junot Díaz
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Papers, articles -
The Case Against Nationalism by Alex Nowrasteh & Ilya Somin (2024) - https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-case-against-nationalism
Why Migration Justice Still Requires Open Borders by Alex Sager (2022) - https://philpapers.org/rec/SAGWMJ-2
Don’t Conflate US and Israeli Border Security Challenges by Alex Nowrasteh (2023) -
The ‘Brain Drain’ Is a Bad Argument for Closed Borders by Alex Nowrasteh (2023) -
National Sovereignty and Free Immigration Are Compatible by Alex Nowrasteh (2024) -
Review of The Culture Transplant: How Migrants Make the Economies They Move to A Lot Like the Ones They Left by Garett Jones, Part I by Alex Nowrasteh (2022) -
Review of The Culture Transplant: How Migrants Make the Economies They Move to A Lot Like the Ones They Left by Garett Jones, Part II by Alex Nowrasteh (2022) -
Immigration Won't Cause a Racialized Civil War in the United States by Alex Nowrasteh (2024) -
Noncitizens Don’t Illegally Vote in Detectable Numbers by Alex Nowrasteh (2024) -
Luxury Belief in Open Borders by Bryan Caplan (2024) -
Some more info from my favorite subreddit - Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free!
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Articles
Open borders would increase global GDP by 50-100%
Immigration increases productivity
Net economic effects of immigration are positive for almost all US immigrants, including low skill ones
Unauthorized immigration is good fiscally
On average, immigration doesn't reduce wages for anyone besides earlier immigrants
Immigrants create more jobs than they take
Immigration doesn't increase inequality but does increase GDP per capita
Immigration doesn't degrade institutions
Muslim immigrants integrate well into European society
Unauthorized immigrants commit fewer crimes per capita
Freedom of movement is a human right
Books
Kwame Anthony Appiah's Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (2006)
Alex Sager's Against Borders: Why the World Needs Free Movement of People (2020)
Alex Nowrasteh's Wretched Refuse: The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions (2020)
Johan Norberg's Open: How Collaboration and Curiosity Shaped Humankind (2021)